Synopse
Two men, two lives, one fateful encounter: Moritz Bleibtreu’s directorial debut, for which he also wrote the screenplay, is a tense, labyrinthine psycho-thriller. Hagen (Moritz Bleibtreu) is suffering from phases in his sleep in which he can no longer tell the difference between dream and reality. The ailing relationship with his wife Karoline (Nadja Uhl) is also increasingly affected. Her affair with small-time crook Niko (Jannis Niewöhner) sets off a chain of events which will drastically change the lives of both men. A seemingly endless nightmare between reality and dream which ends in a pitiless spiral.
Regie
MORITZ BLEIBTREU (*1971) lives in Hamburg and since 1998 has almost exclusively made cinema films. Among his best-known works are Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (1997), Lola rennt (1998), Soul Kitchen (2009) and Nur Gott kann mich richten (2017). He was awarded the Silver Bear for his role in Elementarteilchen at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.
Info
Original Title: Cortex
International Title: Cortex
Category: Feature
Section: Große Freiheit
Version & Subtitles: German OV with English subtitles
Director & Screenplay: Moritz Bleibtreu
Cast/Protagonists: Jannis Niewöhner, Nadja Uhl, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anna Bederke, Marc Hosemann, Murathan Muslu, Nicholas Ofczarek
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2020
Length: 97 min
Producer: Emek Kavukcuoglu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jan Krüger
Production company: Paloma Entertainment GmbH
Cinematography: Thomas W. Kiennast
Editor: Jan Ruschke
Music: Erwin Kiennast
Production Design: Tim Tamke
World Sales: ARRI Media International
Distributor: Stefan Vochezer, Warn Bros. Pictures





